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Afghanistan
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| 1. |
Kabul Will Mediate TTP-Islamabad Talks If Pakistan Wants It: Mujahid
https://tolonews.com/index.php/afghanistan-183857 |
| 2. |
UN in talks with Taliban about possibly handing over Afghan teaching projects to local organisations
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/un-talks-about-possibly-handing-over-afghan-teaching-projects-taliban-2023-06-15/?rpc=401& |
| 3. |
Taliban treatment of women could be ‘gender apartheid’, UN expert says
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/talibans-treatment-women-could-be-gender-apartheid-un-expert-2023-06-19/ |
| 4. |
Iran envoy to Afghanistan meets UN official
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/485998/Iran-envoy-to-Afghanistan-meets-UN-official |
| 5. |
Islamabad to relocate outlawed Pakistani Taliban to western Afghanistan
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/islamabad-to-relocate-outlawed-pakistani-taliban-to-western-afghanistan/2923473 |
| 6. |
Taliban carries out second public execution in Afghanistan since seizing power
https://www.foxnews.com/world/taliban-carries-second-public-execution-afghanistan-since-seizing-power |
| 7. |
Japanese diplomats meet with Afghanistan’s economy minister
https://www.ariananews.af/japanese-diplomats-meet-with-afghanistans-economy-minister/ |
| 8. |
Mending Economic Bridges: Afghan Central Bank Governor’s Meeting with the Chinese Ambassador
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/06/20/mending-economic-bridges-afghan-central-bank-governors-meeting-with-the-chinese-ambassador/ |
| 9. |
Long Sanctions Will Harm Investment Opportunities in Afghanistan: Minister
https://bakhtarnews.af/en/long-sanctions-will-harm-investment-opportunities-in-afghanistan-minister/ |
| 10. |
Afghanistan: Unemployment worsens humanitarian crisis, people with disability among worst affected
https://reliefweb.int/report/afghanistan/afghanistan-unemployment-worsens-humanitarian-crisis-people-disability-among-worst-affected |
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Middle East
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| 11. |
Turkey lifts minimum wage by 34% to address inflation
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-lifts-minimum-wage-by-34-address-inflation-2023-06-20/ |
| 12. |
U.S. and Iran in indirect talks over nuclear program and prisoners
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/20/iran-us-nuclear-talks-prisoners/ |
| 13. |
Qatar secures second major LNG supply deal with China
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/20/qatar-secures-second-major-lng-supply-deal-with-china |
| 14. |
UAE, Qatar reopen embassies after years of tensions
https://www.dawn.com/news/1760612 |
| 15. |
Turkish Drone Strike Kills Three in Northeast Syria: Kurdish Official
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2023/06/20/turkish-drone-strike-syria-2/ |
| 16. |
Yemen prisoner exchange talks wrap with focus on political figure
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/19/yemen-prisoner-exchange-talks-wrap-with-focus-on-political-figure |
| 17. |
Saudi Arabia is quietly changing its textbooks. Could that lead to acceptance of Israel?
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/19/middleeast/saudi-textbooks-israel-mime-intl/index.html |
| 18. |
Israel-Palestine: UN envoy ‘deeply alarmed by continuing cycle of violence’
https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/06/1137932 |
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Africa
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| 19. |
South Africa leader hails ‘historic’ Ukraine peace mission
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/19/south-africa-leader-hails-historic-ukraine-peace-mission |
| 20. |
African countries are fed up with being marginalised in global institutions
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/06/19/african-countries-are-fed-up-with-being-marginalised-in-global-institutions |
| 21. |
Darfur governor calls for international probe in Sudan violence
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/6/20/darfur-governor-calls-for-international-probe-in-sudan-violence |
| 22. |
Ethiopia-Lebanon labour agreement contains little protection for domestic worker
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ethiopia-lebanon-agreement-no-protection-domestic-workers |
